XPost: comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-04-08 11:19, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > On 8/04/2025 4:07 pm, Marion wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 02:37:12 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote :   
   >>   
   >>>> There is free open source software which does not cost money but when   
   >>>> distributed by the Apple App Store, it's locked to a specific Apple ID.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> No other operating system vendor does that for software that is free.   
   >>>> Only Apple.   
   >>>   
   >>> AGAIN, that is not FREE Software.   
   >>>   
   >>> Stop calling it Free. It ain't. This is serious, Arlen. Study it up. You   
   >>> claim to be clever. Be it.   
   >>>   
   >>>> Call it whatever you want to call it, but that's what Apple does to it.   
   >>>   
   >>> I don't care who does it.   
   >>   
   >> The fact that only Apple adds locks (to an Apple ID) on software that no   
   >> other operating system locks is the technical point that matters here.   
   >>   
   >> That lock goes on *all* software from Apple. Every single app. Every   
   >> type.   
   >> No matter what type of app it is. It gets that unique lock only Apple   
   >> does.   
   >>   
   >> That's what's different. The lock. It's unique. Only Apple does that.   
   >>   
   >> That lock prevents re-use. And that lock allows Apple to track you.   
   >> And that's what's bad.   
   >>   
   > Am I mis-reading what is being posted here??   
   >   
   > Both Marion *AND* Carlos E.R. seem to be suggesting that *only* Apple   
   > locks a user into their/Apples system .... Other OSs/systems are not   
   > locking their users into THEIR OSs/Systems.   
   >   
   > Or am I mis-understanding what is being posted??   
      
   No, I am saying nothing about the lock. I don't care, I don't have any   
   Apple.   
      
   What I say is that if there is a lock, the Apple software may be gratis,   
   but it is not Free (as in Freedom). Free means I am free to take the   
   source code, remove the lock, recompile, and sell it myself. With   
   variants in the details by the licensing.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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